ODU Senior Emergency Exercise Manager - Counter Terrorism Policing

Multi-Agency Coordination

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders to ensure that the CTX program effectively contributes to achieving Contest objectives.
• Coordinate and chair senior stakeholder meetings to ensure effective coordination of CTX activity across all agencies and partners.
• Ensure compliance with interoperability frameworks and best practice.

Evaluation & Assurance

• Lead on change programmes to develop better utilisation of learning management systems across partners, ensuring learning capture is agile, scalable that drives continuous improvement.
• To understand and improve system resilience and effectiveness, identifying gaps in capacity and capability through learning.
• Ensure that learning management systems and processes are user friendly whilst maintaining necessary integrity and auditability.

Governance & Compliance

• Direct and coordinate national CTX activity to ensure that all legal, regulatory, and health and safety requirements are met.
• Lead on behalf of CTP, alignment of CTX activity with national frameworks and resilience standards.
• Manage budgets, resources, and procurement related to delivery of the national CTX programme.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop the team members within the multi-agency CTX Hub, ensuring HR, performance and welfare requirements are always met.
• Provide mentoring and professional development to build organisational capability.
• Manage external suppliers and specialist contractors where required.

Skills and competencies Essential

• Evidence extensive vocational experience relating to emergency management, resilience or a related field.
• Proven management experience of a minimum of two years leading a multi-agency workforce whilst exercising strong leadership, motivating and developing staff.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large scale change projects and managing implementation through internal and external teams.
• In depth knowledge of multi-agency response frameworks and structures, including initial emergency responders, local resilience forums and wider government agencies.
• Have experience of analysis of data sets and information to formulate objectives, inform and design workstreams and develop reporting mechanisms to inform strategic governance boards.
• Knowledge and experience of how emergency systems and command structures work across multiple agencies.
• Able to work without direct supervision and make complex decisions without the need to escalate.
• Have a strong desire to contribute to the direction of Counter Terrorism Policing and the achievement of cross cutting key stakeholder objectives.
• Experience in leading compliance audits across a network to ensure agreed standards meet the business needs ensuring the CTP exercise strategy and process remains effective.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workloads, with tight deadlines, and prioritise work based on strategic drivers.
• Proven ability to communicate with and influence senior staff and stakeholders to build operational relationships across professional boundaries.

Desirable

• Evidence of working within the CST space.
• Cognisant of Organisational Learning capabilities of CT Networks strategic partners within the CST Mission 2 space
• Ability to manage multi-agency groups to achieve collaborative working between ODU on behalf of CTP and strategic partners to promote and adopt an effective and coordinated exercise strategy.
• Experience of matrix-management

Security Clearance

This post requires British nationality (some dual nationalities may be ineligible) and a Developed Vetting [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#developed-vetting-dv] clearance.

You will need to undergo additional security clearance checks, with the offer of employment being conditional on obtaining all of the necessary security clearances.

There are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries once in post.

Diversity & Inclusion

We maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities, whilst protecting them from harm.

Counter Terrorism Policing is always working to build upon our diverse workforce to reflect the country we serve. An inclusive culture enables us to do things differently, working in ways that meet individuals’ needs, flexing working patterns to ensure work-life balance is healthy so that we deliver the best for the organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

Advertisement Closing Date

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if the maximum volume of applications has been reached. Candidates with unsubmitted applications will not be informed prior to the advert closing.

Please do not attach a CV/covering letter as these will not be used during the application process.

Counter Terrorism Policing is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.

Join Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTU for a unique opportunity to play your part in keeping the West Midlands region safe. Every day offers a variety of exciting challenges and exceptional opportunities played out on a national and international stage.

Most of what we achieve may never see the light of day but be assured that we have the very best and brightest working around the clock in an effort to keep us all safe. These ordinary men and women do extraordinary things in an effort to thwart terrorist planning; to safeguard those who are at risk of radicalisation; to protect our critical national infrastructure, institutions and crowded places, and to pursue and bring terrorists to justice.

Our Counter Terrorism Unit aims to create an inclusive and welcoming environment where all our people feel a strong sense of belonging and are able to reach their full potential. With a range of roles available, you don’t need a background in security and we are always looking for different skills and experiences to join our talented team.

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